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(Message started by: bubu on Feb 14^th, 2004, 8:43am)

Title: anybody get short sharp earaches?
Post by bubu on Feb 14^th, 2004, 8:43am

since i started CH at 15 and am 47 now, at least once a year, out of nowhere, on the same side as my ch, right, i get a 5 to ten second earache that knocks me on the floor, pulsating pain, worse than any ch, right in the soft spot under my earlobe, and its over as quick as it came. no specific time of year, never asked a doctor about it,
just asking if anyone ever heard of such a thing.

Title: Re: anybody get short sharp earaches?
Post by Prense on Feb 14^th, 2004, 10:25am

Not me...

Title: Re: anybody get short sharp earaches?
Post by bobkip on Feb 14^th, 2004, 12:10pm

Could be what we call an icepick headache. I've had them a few times, very intense but fortunately short lasting, fels like someone has seriusly stabbed you with an icepick.The pain is sudden and intense enough to get a short yelp followed by a damnit.
Kip

Title: Re: anybody get short sharp earaches?
Post by kim on Feb 14^th, 2004, 1:01pm

sometimes i have had sharp pulsating pain inside my ear during an attack. I think it's those vessels doin their thang. Yep, it CAN hurt. Ya get a sudden "twinge"......it's a symptom.

Title: Re: anybody get short sharp earaches?
Post by Big_Dan on Feb 14^th, 2004, 5:12pm

Yeah... of the Q-tip variety....

-Big Clutz

Title: Re: anybody get short sharp earaches?
Post by jonny on Feb 14^th, 2004, 10:28pm

Earache my eye ;;D

.........................jonny

Title: Re: anybody get short sharp earaches?
Post by eyes_afire on Feb 15^th, 2004, 1:11am

I agree with what Bobkip is saying. A branch of the trigeminal nerve leads toward the ear, so I don't find your earaches surprising. I experience those 'icepick' pains almost on a daily basis now in area behind my eye where my CH is. They are short and extremely painful. If they become too bothersome I have a prescription of Indomethacin just waiting to be filled.

--- Steve

Title: Re: anybody get short sharp earaches?
Post by BarbaraD on Feb 16^th, 2004, 4:53am

I've always said I get a "cramp" in my ear. That's the spot alright. Sometimes I can "pop" it and it goes away, but it's like a Charlie Horse.

What I've thought was an icepick - was a stab in the eye. Get those too. Can't do anything about them except yep or yell.

Hugs BD

Title: Re: anybody get short sharp earaches?
Post by thomas on Feb 16^th, 2004, 10:43am

No, sorry bro.

Title: Re: anybody get short sharp earaches?
Post by Kirk on Feb 16^th, 2004, 2:09pm

Every now and then. Makes me wonder. Where did that come from?

TTFN

Title: Re: anybody get short sharp earaches?
Post by hopefull on Feb 16^th, 2004, 6:55pm

yes it feels like your ear drum is being lanced......was told it was like with migrains you see sparks before you get them sometimes...well I sometimes get sharp pain in my ear....if definely stops you in your tracks for a few minutes......

Title: Re: anybody get short sharp earaches?
Post by 2late on Feb 16^th, 2004, 7:06pm

i get that sometimes too......gotta love these fuckin' clusters. ...............Jack

Title: Re: anybody get short sharp earaches?
Post by Cerberus on Feb 16^th, 2004, 7:26pm

EEEEEEvery once in a great while I get a sharp pain in my right ear, lasts no more than a couple of seconds, not debilitating or anything but it does get my attention.
I don't know if its CH related or not, never occured to me, and hasn't happened since my diagnosis that I can remember but if it ever happens again I'll let ya know.

Ramon